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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.101.NO.106
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1995
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How the fee came to be
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Activity fee to increase S7
Student Senate settles on $35 instead of $39
Bv Ian Ritter
Kansan staff writer
KU students will pay a $35 activity fee next year, a $7 increase from this year's $28 fee.
Student Senate debated the increase for more than three and a half hours Wednesday night before passing the fee. The original bill proposed increasing the activity fee to $39.
Sherman Reeves, student body president, opposed the $39 activity fee.
"I'm not opposed to a small increase for everybody," he said.
Campus organizations still will be able to function with the smaller increase, said Kim Cocks, education senator.
"Students everywhere are being taxed by the University," she said. "We need to be conscious that students are being out in a crunch."
Cocks said that fees needed to be increased but not to $39.
"I just feel that perhaps we are acting a little impulsively by raising the fee by $11," she said.
Stephanie Guerin, chairwoman of the Senate Finance Committee, proposed the $39 activity fee. She said that the needs of student organizations would not be met effectively by a fee of $35.
"What we're doing is a half-assed job," she said of the Senate's decision to increase the fee to $35. "If you're going to do it, you have to do it right."
Guerin said that the $39 fee wasn't enough to finance organizations adequately.
"If everyone got funded what they needed, we'd have to have an even higher activity fee, like $41," she said.
Debate began when Eric Medill, student body vice president, proposed a separate $12 fee for Campus
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in other business...
Other business at Wednesday's Student Senate meeting:
The Native-American Student Association's received $3,069 for its annual Pow-Wow.
The KU Hellenic Club received 6001
Jeni Miller, Nunemaker senator,
and Carey Stucky, Nunemaker
senator, had unexcused
absences.
The KU Bangladesh Club received $1,645.60 for its spring festival.
Transportation. The Campus Transportation fee now is included in the activity fee.
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The amendment failed.
Alan Pierce, non-traditional seniort, said that giving Campus Transportation its own fee would decrease the input that students had about the bus system.
"If we give them a restricted fee, then they're going to know that money is coming in forever," he said. "Pretty soon you'll just give up on any changes being made to the bus system."
Pierce said opposition between candidates running in the April election hindered the decision-making process and contributed to the debate Wednesday. Guerin and Cocks both are running for student bodypresident.
"I made the commitment to serve as finance chair before the commitment to run for student body president." Guerin said.
She said that she would fulfill her obligations with the Finance Committee as a non-political person and pointed out that there were people from both coalitions on the Finance Committee.
Future architects need to build assets
School of Architecture votes to require laptops starting in Fall 1996
By Brian Vandervliet
Kansan staff writer
By 1998, architecture students may find they'll need money for more than pizza and books. They could need up to $2,000 to buy a laptop computer.
"We're by no means on the cutting edge." he said.
Two weeks ago, faculty at the School of Architecture voted unanimously to require students entering the school in Fall 1996 to buy a laptop computer by their junior year.
The intent is to keep architecture students on track with students at other universities, said Dennis Domer, associate dean of architecture. He said many schools, such as Carnegie-Mellon University and Arizona State University, had required architecture students to buy computers.
"We cannot be medieval."
Details of the requirement have not been decided, but Domer said it would cost students about $2,000. Domer said that by requiring the purchase, it would be easier for students to get loans and financial aid to buy a computer.
We re-by no means on the cutting edge," he said. Domer said architecture firms today expected students to be computer competent. More than 90 percent of architecture firms use computers in the design process. Students need to be familiar with computer-aided design programs such as Autocad and Microstation to find jobs.
Required purchases increases the amount of money students can borrow from the Kansas University Endowment Association.
"One of the reasons we did this was the rich kids already had computers and the poor kids did not," he said. "We felt like we needed to equalize the capabilities to finance a computer."
"In a sense, we are forced to recognize what is going on in the professional world. We cannot be medieval."
In a sense, we are forced to recognize what is going on in the professional world," he said.
Dennis Domer associate dean of architecture
Domer said the measure had been approved by students during an all-school forum last April.
One student who attended the forum in April agreed that the requirement was needed to prepare students for the professional world.
"I think it's an excellent idea," said Dan Nenonen, Sycamore, III., sophomore, who already owns a laptop computer. "It will put the school into the 21st century."
Although Jessica Huennekens, Yankton, S.D., senior, won't be affected by the requirement, she preferred a gradual approach to compute
"I think computers can be highly overrated in a lot of ways," she said. "I think a person should get to know a computer on their own terms first."
education. More computers should be available in the studios, she said. About 40 computers are available at the School of Architecture.
Rock Chalk 'n' roll
Above: Jennifer Addington, Olathe sophomore, practices backstage with the dancers from Alpha Gamma
Rock Chalk Revue
Delta and Alpha Epsilon Phi's production of Bug Bytes in Rock Chalk Revue.
Right: Dana Hess, Pleasanton, Calif., junior, puts on make-up before her performance as the lady bug in Bug Bytes.
Last year, Rock Chalk Revue raised $43,000 for United Way. Organizers hope that the revue, which began last night, will raise between $35,000 and $43,000 this year, said Craig Novorr, business manager of the revue. Ticket prices are $10 for tonight and $15 for Saturday evening. Tickets are available for both evenings and can be purchased at the Lied Center box office and the Student Union Activities box office. Shows start at 7:30 p.m.
Photos by Valerie Crow / KANSAN
Brady mania
A hit movie produces nostalgia for the days of pork chops and applesauce. Students and Kansan staffers take a look at the blast from the past known as the Brady Bunch.
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Olympian Louganis announces he has AIDS
Olympian Lou Diver still scheduled for LesBiGay Awareness Week
By Robert Allen Kansan staff writer
Olympic gold medalist and world-champion diver Greg Louganis, who is scheduled to speak here in April, announced this week that he has AIDS.
In an interview with Barbara Walters for ABC's 20/20, which will be televised on 9 tonight, Louganis admitted that he tested positive for the HIV virus shortly before the 1988 Olympics.
Louganis is scheduled to speak at KU during LesBiGay Awareness Week, April 3-8. The exact date has not yet been set.
Scott Bevan, graduate assistant for gay, lesbian and bisexual concerns, said that the announcement would have no affect on Louganis' commitment to speak at KU.
Bevan also said that although the topic of Louganis'
Bill Friend, Lawrence resident and coordinator for $ ^{10} $
"We have a tendency to treat people with AIDS like invalids," he said. "That's ridiculous."
speech was unknown, his announcement shouldn't alter it.
Louganis already had begun taking AZT when he competed in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. During competition, he accidentally slammed his head against the diving board, opening a two-inch gash in his scalp. Louganis was afraid that his blood would contaminate the water.
Bill Friend, Lawrence resident and coordinator for week's activities, said people should not think differently of Louganis because of his announcement.
"This has been an incredibly guarded secret," Louganis said. "I just held my head. I just wanted to hold the blood in or just not let anybody touch it
my heart just wants to be touched,
blood in or just not let anybody touch it."
tendency to treat people with AIDS like invalids."
Bill Friend coordinator of LesBiGay awareness week
contact with the pool water is slim, said Daniel Hinthorn, professor of infectious diseases at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
The chance that anyone would have been infected from
james Puffer, the Olympic Committee doctor who treated Louganis, was not aware that Louganis had AIDS and did not use protective gloves when he closed the wound.
"I'd have to say we don't really know since it hasn't happened," he said. "Theoretically, it is very low."
A year ago, Louganis told Puffer that he was HIV-positive.
"I subsequently was tested and found HIV-negative," Puffer said.
Tickets for the speech should go on sale March 13 at the Student Union Activities box office in the Kansas Union. Prices have not been set.
The Associated Press contributed Information to this story.